Mr_Flintstone
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I have a surplus Carcano carbine that has about 3/4” cleaning rod damage where the outside rifling is almost completely gone, but the rifling past that is good. It shoots a wide pattern, not too bad at 25-50 yards, but opens up past that. What, if anything, can be done by a pretty handy gun owner? There are no gunsmiths within 150 miles, and I don’t like the idea of sending the rifle off, paying twice what I paid for the rifle, and waiting 6 months to a year to get it back. I considered cutting the end of the barrel off, and re-crowning, but it has an integral front sight that’s made onto the barrel, and that might interfere with cutting back the barrel.